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Miscellaneous Stories
Part One This is the story of the final day of Maxwell Odium’s life. Maxwell Odium was sitting in his small apartment, staring out of the only window when he realized that suddenly, everything had come to a halt. A loud dissonant sound was coming from the Isolated Living Containment Unit to the left of him. His neighbor was a musician. Maxwell had always despised...
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Lilly woke up this morning with a troubled head. The innocence of this 9-year-old girl radiated from her hesitant bare feet as she stepped into her kitchen to eat breakfast. Lilly’s dad works for a company called “Beauterin” that specializes in a new multi-vitamin that strengthens the immune system and works as an anti-pregnancy pill for women. The nutritional value of this...
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"Reality: We're so tired that will not be able to die; awake; living in the graves!" Friedrich Nietzsche
He straightened up and glanced at the emptiness-smelled desolate room. What is there in my mind? He let the silence sit on his mind which had been busy...
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Emily was exhausted. Her mother's business trip was extended three extra days, and she couldn't wait that long. She had finally built up enough courage to tell someone, and that courage was already fading.
Katherine stayed home, for once, although she had two friends sleep over. They kept bothering Emily. They wouldn't stop banging on her bedroom door, and it didn't like that. The loud...
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Chapter 1 A skinny kid punched a fat kid square in the face and then kicked him in the ribs when he was down. The fat kid held something tight in a buttery fist that was tucked into his coat. “Give it back ass-face!” The skinny kid shouted and grabbed him by his jean jacket that was adorned with at least a dozen buttons, each with their own clever saying....
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Miscellaneous Stories
Part I
"Where the hell do you think you're going," he screams at her as she is walking toward the door.
"Fuck you; I don't owe you an explanation." she replies with much anger.
He runs over, grabs her arm and yanks her toward him; the force in which he pulls her slams her body into his,...
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Thursday. Insignificant. Nothing good happened today, but then again, nothing bad happened either. School was as usual, go to class, eat lunch, go to more classes, come home. It was the same dull routine Emily followed everyday.
And yet, it gave her a sense of stability. It was comforting to know what was going to happen the next day. Her mother was coming home tomorrow from her business...
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Thirteen years, she's been around. And yet, Emily still didnt know her. She stared her down from across the breakfast table. Katherine had come home this morning.
It was bleak. Katherine didn't say a word to Emily. She simply stared right back at her in a less threatening way than Emily was looking at Katherine.
"What?" Katherine said in her defiant junior high way. When...
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Emily heard it again. It wouldn't stop. She finally collapsed on her bedroom floor and covered her ears. She screamed for it to stop, maybe she could drown out the sound.
It didn't work. It never worked. She always heard it, it was always there. Telling her to do things, things she would never even think about earlier. What happened to her?
The medication didn't work. She popped...
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Roots grow out over the embankment and form half loops into the soil. The water touches underneath the trees where the ducks live, and the water gives off a smell of the slow moving moss.
This is where I lost my chance to live my life how I wanted to. Today I made a choice on this bank that I cannot take back. If I could have been more like my...
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Mayank had left office quite early, or rather at the right time - at around six in evening, but instead of going home, he went to Worli Sea-face, very near to his office.
Sun was still warm. In Mumbai, the length of an evening is very short. The night waxes out as soon as the afternoon wanes. The sun drops into the sea as if the gravity doesn't allow it to stand in the sky...
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The alarm went off at 2:00 am, it’s shrill voice was terrible and his heavy hand slammed down on it and threw it hard across the room, with its umbilical cord trailing behind. The plain digital clock hit hard and fell apart, leaving a black mark on the wall. He rolled over on his back and pulled the pillow over his head and tried to suffocate himself. No luck. ...
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Mike painstakingly set the table. Knife, fork, spoon. Or is it spoon, fork, knife? Oh, well. It's not like they're going to be picky. Folding the napkins into triangles, Mike strategically placed them within reach of his soon-to-be guests. His wife's favorite china adorned the long, antique table, and two decorative vases filled with fresh flowers were placed at both...
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Vernon sat at his old desk, lost in thought. The study room was ornate, and antiquated, a frozen part of the wealthy past. In front of him, encased in a cheap gold-painted picture frame, the face of Enoch Powell gazed intently, as if waiting for Vernon to detail his plans to him. Vernon sighed and leaned back into the ragged leather of the chair: taking another long drag on his...
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The apocalypse hovered over their bodies as the two lay motionless in the field of tranquility outside their hometown. Staring upwards with uncertainty; the once soothing serenity of the summer sun that once cast beams of distant dreams upon their freckled faces now cast shades of sullen shadows. Even still, as their young...
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The earth bank rose up from the floor of the woods, the clear blue sky some thirty feet above them beckoned the three young boys to climb up to meet it. The old green iron fence was broken and pulled down where boys before them had climbed. Bicycles were abandoned at the fence and with much scrabbling and grabbing hold of trees the three explorers arrived triumphantly at...
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With success at the amateur boxing level now firmly under his belt, it was time for Colin Sharp to make a life-changing decision. Would he turn professional or defend his titles at the next Olympics..................?
At an age approaching twenty Eddie now gave him the option of remaining in the amateur game in order to defend his Olympic title at the...
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Jess squatted down onto the toilet bowl and proceeded to pull the test out of the box. Reading the directions, she placed the stick in between her legs and started to urinate onto the tip of the stick. She could feel little sprinkles splash up to the bottom of her thighs. Knowing this meant the tip was probably saturated, she decided to continue until she was finished....
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This is a children's story. I'm not totally pleased with it. Do you have any suggestions? Once upon a time there was a boy named Luke. Luke lived in a big city where there were lots of people. All over the city you could hear cars rumbling and you could hear the many different kinds of footsteps of all of the people who were walking....
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I poked my pinky finger into the thick green sludgy stuff on my hot dog. I yelped and pulled my finger, experiencing the sensation where something was so cool it was scalding. Jonah gave me a wierd look from across the red picnic table we both sat at in the concession area of the Seneca Park Community Pool. In school we once learned about Newton's laws, so that explained how the relish got me...
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